Cynics might argue he would do better to simply look around his basic bush camp, where mutinous soldiers and an allied ethnic militia crammed with child soldiers ready themselves to attack government forces, as a brutal four-month-long civil war in which thousands of people have already been killed intensifies.

The conflict in South Sudan erupted on December 15, pitting army units loyal to President Salva Kiir against a loose alliance of ethnic militia forces and mutinous army commanders nominally headed by Riek Machar, a former vice-president who was sacked last July.

On 21 January around 200 mutinous soldiers with two tanks stormed the information ministry and forced the director of the state-run media service to announce their demands, including the release of all political prisoners and implementation of the constitution.

Mali has since been divided between supporters and rivals of former President Amadou Toumani Toure, who was ousted on March 22 by mutinous troops angry at his handling of a rebellion in the north that started a few month earlier.

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar: A group of mutinous soldiers in Madagascar took over a military camp near the Indian Ocean island's main airport on Sunday and shot an army officer sent in to negotiate their surrender, the Defense Ministry said.

We support the Congolese government's efforts to discourage further defections and to bring to justice alleged human rights abusers among the mutinous forces, including Bosco Ntaganda," State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner said in a statement.

With the country's powerful tribes and mutinous soldiers also arrayed against him, Saleh, who is known to have broken similar promisesduring the past three decades that he has been in power, said: "I reject power and I will continue to reject it, and I will be leaving power in the coming days.

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